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  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Noam Chomsky-Pirates and Emperors, Old and New

    Chomsky is always a good read. This one's a dissection of terrorism and the role of the US in the Middle East. So far, so good.
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • sultryevening
    sultryevening Posts: 522
    Beach Music -Pat Conroy- can make me cry everytime i read it

    and the one that id loved ever since i was a kid-

    Brighty of the Grand Canyon- (anyone read it) - hes the bravest mule in the world!
    Some people have to have the sultry evenings Cocktails in the blue, red and grey But I like every minute of the day.
    INTER-FUCKING-MISSION!!!
    Newcastle-Riverside 02/22/92!!!
    E.rutherford New Jersey 01/06/06
    Athens -Greece.survived !barely-
    Wembley 18/06/07- no words- just smiles!
  • Radar(Baba)O'Riley
    Radar(Baba)O'Riley Posts: 947
    Garfield Sits Around the House is a classic.

    Sadly, I read very little (hangs head in shame). I try, but find this board more entertaining :) That still counts as reading, right?
  • sevensins
    sevensins Posts: 887
    HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN a biography of Kurt Cobain!!!!
    Not only the best Kurt bio. but one of the best bios ever written. All factual info he interviewed just about everyone Kurt ever knew. If you have even a mild intrest in Nirvana ( i think most do ) READ THIS BOOK!!
    http://www.myspace.com/pleasetryagain

    http://www.myspace.com/alotalotbetweenus
  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    Ideal for the young activist and armchair activists alike!

    The Lorax - by Dr. Suess


    For some real doomsday fun:

    5/5/2000 - by Richard Noone

    Of course, 5/5/2000 is past, but their clocks might be too slow.
    Astounding evidence reports pole shifts in our lifetime and other spooky and gut wrenching observations of our Earth.
    Oh no! IT'S ALIVE!!

    *watch out for INFRASOUND activity.
  • Balki
    Balki Posts: 50
    bumpin for some late night responses :)
    "Don't Be Ridiculous"
    ~Balki Bartokamous

    "Some people have taken pure bullshit, and turned it into gold."
    ~Neil

    "Call out the instigators, because there's something in the air..."
  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    Griffen & Sabine by nick bantock
  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    the ultimate book for me personally. actually if i could ever make a film with PJ, i would use this book as the seed.

    because if cameron crow, and all this fabulous music and thought could be put into a visual story....well fuck, i would have to just keep my depends nearby.

    HOPE EDDIE. thank you

    hope




    buy it in paperback

    another quicky read
  • VVVFF
    VVVFF Posts: 9
    Did you ever read anything by F.Paul Wilson? His adversary cycle...starting with 'The Keep'...is rather dark, but interesting. My favorites in the batch is 'The Tomb' and 'SIBS'.
    There's more to balance than not falling over.
  • Balki
    Balki Posts: 50
    I just finished Vonnegut's "Bluebeard" not his best work...but entertaining and definately worth reading. It was interesting how living a life as an artist draws loneliness...but...your works tend to draw people closer if not to you, to each other.
    "Don't Be Ridiculous"
    ~Balki Bartokamous

    "Some people have taken pure bullshit, and turned it into gold."
    ~Neil

    "Call out the instigators, because there's something in the air..."
  • Clark Griswold
    Clark Griswold Posts: 11
    Balki, I want to personally thank you for getting me back into the read mode, I forgot how awsome books really are. They are treasures onto them selves.....

    Love,
    Clark
    Mom Ass is the wave of the future.
  • sultryevening
    sultryevening Posts: 522
    Originally posted by Clark Griswold
    Balki, I want to personally thank you for getting me back into the read mode, I forgot how awsome books really are. They are treasures onto them selves.....

    Love,
    Clark

    or a treasure onto them shelves!
    Some people have to have the sultry evenings Cocktails in the blue, red and grey But I like every minute of the day.
    INTER-FUCKING-MISSION!!!
    Newcastle-Riverside 02/22/92!!!
    E.rutherford New Jersey 01/06/06
    Athens -Greece.survived !barely-
    Wembley 18/06/07- no words- just smiles!
  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    have you ever read a book called

    goodnight gekko?
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    i love dostoyevsky (tho i can never spell the name). i havent gotten through brothers karamazov yet, but i did read crime and punishment and it's fantastic.

    everyone should read catch-22, imho the greatest book ever written. it's so crazy you know it's real but so realistic it has to be insane.

    i dig vonnegut too, tho slaughterhouse-5 is one of my least favorites. i liked breakfast of champions and player piano a lot.

    ummm, for the fantasy people, philip pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is some of the best I've ever read. very intelligent and philosophical. im re-reading the silmarillion now for my thesis as well, no lotr, but good nonetheless.

    "on the road" jack keruoac

    anything by Michael Chabon.

    God, I'm such a dorky English major bookworm, haha

    Conor
  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    Originally posted by sevensins
    HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN a biography of Kurt Cobain!!!!
    Not only the best Kurt bio. but one of the best bios ever written. All factual info he interviewed just about everyone Kurt ever knew. If you have even a mild intrest in Nirvana ( i think most do ) READ THIS BOOK!!
  • FancyFacade
    FancyFacade Posts: 330
    Screwtape Letters- C.S. Lewis. its basically the devil writing letters to another demon telling him how to trick humans. i found it pretty interesting
  • Balki
    Balki Posts: 50
    Originally posted by FancyFacade
    Screwtape Letters- C.S. Lewis. its basically the devil writing letters to another demon telling him how to trick humans. i found it pretty interesting

    that sounds really really cool
    "Don't Be Ridiculous"
    ~Balki Bartokamous

    "Some people have taken pure bullshit, and turned it into gold."
    ~Neil

    "Call out the instigators, because there's something in the air..."
  • nfmessiah
    nfmessiah Posts: 58
    Cat's Cradle and Player Piano (Vonnegut)

    I love sirens of titan as well.

    Oh and anything by Daniel Quinn (Ishmael, Story of B, My Ishmael)
    once dissolved we are free to grow...
  • Balki
    Balki Posts: 50
    bump
    "Don't Be Ridiculous"
    ~Balki Bartokamous

    "Some people have taken pure bullshit, and turned it into gold."
    ~Neil

    "Call out the instigators, because there's something in the air..."
  • blackcat13
    blackcat13 Posts: 18
    The Stranger by Albert Camus
    Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer..it's a biography
    And yes..anything by Daniel Quinn
    NO BUSH
    2004

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